Drivers

M.S. Carriers Opens Border Terminal

May 24, 2000
• by Staff

M.S. Carriers Inc. has announced the opening of its new $8 million Laredo, Texas, terminal, being dubbed the "largest trucking facility of its kind along the U.S. border with Mexico."The 65,000 square foot terminal facility is located on 50 acres and has the capacity to park 500 trailers and 200 tractors. The terminal will be open 24 hours a day and will employ approximately 60 people, including 40 mechanics and vehicle support personnel.

KeepTruckin is fast-growing company that specializes in providing electronic logging and fleet management solutions for owner-operators and small carriers. It recently announced a new round of capital to fund its expansion. We spoke to KeepTruckin Co-founder and CEO Shoaib Makani about where they came from and where they're going.

A quarterly survey of a varied panel of trucking fleets finds continued strong plans to buy more trucks, especially among larger fleets, and among private fleets looking to address capacity and rate issues – but those truck orders are in many cases about other things than adding capacity, because drivers continue to be in short supply.